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"I received the answer," said the Emperor, "that he did not know very exactly himself it was a secret. 'All I can say is, the old seaman went on, 'that if the metacentrum was in the topmast, the ship would over-turn." The success of a jest, one is told, lies in the ear of the hearer.
Possibly something of the "stormy amusement" may have been called forth by the reflection that the imperial metacentrum had on occasion got misplaced. In addition to the natural and accidental predispositions of the Emperor, certain general considerations, which imposed themselves irresistibly on all men's attention as the century drew to its close, impelled him to more energetic action.
The Emperor closed one of his naval lectures with an anecdote which the papers reported next day as being received with "stormy amusement." It was about the metacentrum, the centre of gravity in ship construction. The Emperor told of his having asked an old sea lieutenant to explain to him the metacentrum.
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